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The Grange is a historic Georgian manor in downtown Toronto, Canada. It was the first home of the Art Museum of Toronto. Today, it is part of the Art Gallery of Ontario. The structure was built in 1817, making it the 12th oldest surviving building in Toronto and the oldest remaining brick house. It was built for D'Arcy Boulton (1785–1846), one of the town's leading citizens and part of the powerful Boulton family that played an important role in the Family Compact. Originally it was considerably west of the city, but over time the city grew and Boulton sold his considerable land holdings surrounding the manor at great profit. The house was inherited by D'Arcy's son and Toronto mayor William Henry Boulton. When he died in 1874 the house passed to his widow, Hariette Boulton. She remarried the prominent scholar Goldwin Smith, and the couple lived in the Grange for the rest of their lives. Upon Goldwin's Smith's death in 1910, the couple bequeathed the building to the Art Gallery of Toronto〔http://www.ago.net/look-again-picasso-and-man-the-1964-exhibition〕 〔http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM704937&R=704937〕(now known as the Art Gallery of Ontario) and the Grange became the new home of the gallery. The building also served as the first home of the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD). Since the early 20th century, the Art Gallery of Ontario has been expanded a number of times and the original manor makes up only a small part of the structure. The expanse of lawn to the south of the building, what is left of the grounds, is operated by the city as Grange Park. Also on the old grounds is St. George Church, which was founded by the Boultons and which burned down in 1956. Only the tower and original Sunday school building remain. In 1970, the Grange was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in recognition of the house's significance to the history of Toronto.〔(The Grange ), Directory of Designations of National Historic Significance of Canada〕〔(The Grange ), National Register of Historic Places〕 ==The original house== The Grange was built in 1817 as the home of D’Arcy Boulton Jr., his wife, Sarah Anne, and their eight children. It was located on one hundred acres of land that extended from Queen Street in the south to Bloor Street in the north and from Beverley Street east to McCaul Street. The north section of the property was sold to Bishop Strachan in 1828, to be used for the establishment of King’s College, an Anglican university. Property to the south was donated in the 1830s and 40s for St. George the Martyr Church and St. Patrick’s Market (both still in existence). The original house, designed by an unknown architect, was two storeys high, 60 x 40 feet in area, with a low hipped roof containing a circular window. It is likely that the bricks were made on the property from the heavily clayed soil. The windows are double-hung with brick lintels and louvered wooden shutters. They are 12-over-12 sash on the main floor and 8-over-8 sash on the second. The front door has a moulded reveal and a semi-circular fanlight, with separate sidelights. Originally, the gate of the building extended to Queen Street, however the gates have been crowded back to the head of John Street. As was the custom at the time, the Grange was built in the middle of a hundred acre park lot. It received the name the Grange after a family estate in England. Reflecting a sense of Georgian balance, the front door opened onto a central hall with the dining room on the left and the drawing room on the right. At the back of the house and on the second floor were bedrooms for the family. There were also four large rooms in the attic, probably for the servants. The kitchen, food storage areas and scullery were in the basement. When D’Arcy died, the house was left to Sarah Anne. She put the house and the land around it in trust for her daughter-in-law, Harriette, as a marriage settlement. Thus the house was in Harriette’s name and it was Harriette who bequeathed the house to the Art Museum of Toronto. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Grange (Toronto)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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